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OBITUARIES. AMERICAN. 



OBIT U A HI HS, FOREIGN. 



old State Militia. lie served with his regiment in 

 the civil war ; Was appointed major general of the 

 2nd Division N. (f. S. N. Y., in ISlis ; inspector gen- 

 eral in 1875 ; adjutant general in 187!) ; and retired 

 from the service in 1880. Iir 1875 he became Presi- 

 dent of the Brooklyn Board of City Works; in 

 1888, President of the Board of Park Commission- 

 ers ; in 1889 was legislated out of office ; and short- 

 ly afterward was reappointed a park commissioner. 

 He was defeated as candidate of the Independent 

 Democrats and Republicans for mayor of Brooklyn 

 in 1885. For several years prior to the autumn of 

 1895 Gen. Woodward was President of the Board 

 of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. He was largely instrumental in chang- 

 ing the old Brooklyn Institute into the new institu- 

 tion, and in securing in 1895 the appropriation of 

 $300,000, with which work on the new museum on 

 Prospect Hill was begun. 



Wright, George Groves, jurist, born in Bloom- 

 ington. Ind., March 24, 1820; died in DCS Moines, 

 Iowa, Jan. 11, 1896. He was graduated at the State 

 University in 1839; was admitted to the bar, and 

 removed to Keosaqua, Iowa, to practice the follow- 

 ing year ; served as prosecuting attorney in 1847-'48; 

 and was a State Senator in 1849-'54. In 1855 he 

 was elected Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme 

 Court by the Legislature, and in 1S60 and 1X63 was 

 returned to that court by popular vote, under a 

 change in the State Constitution. During his last 

 term he was also a professor in the law department 

 of the State University. In 1868 he was elected 

 United States Senator as a Republican. He served 

 in the Senate on the Commit tees on Finance, Claims, 

 and the Judiciary. Judge Wright was the founder 

 of the first law school west of the Mississippi. 



Yerkes, Stephen, theologian, born in Bucks 

 County, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1N27; died in Dan- 

 ville, Ky., March 28. 1896. He was graduated at Yale 

 in 1837; studied theology in Baltimore, Md., where 

 he also taught for nearly fifteen years; and held 

 Presbyterian pastorates at Long Green and Bethel. 

 Md. In 1852 he became Professor of Ancient Lan- 

 guages in Transylvania University, Lexington. Ky., 

 and pastor of a local church, and in May. 1857, was 

 elected by the Old School General Assembly of the 

 Church, Professor of Biblical and Oriental Litera- 

 ture in Danville Theological Seminary. He resigned 

 this chair in May, 1866, and was acting Professor 

 of Greek in Center College, Danville, during the 

 next three years, though resuming his former chair 

 in the seminary in May, 1867. Dr. Yerkes was also 

 president of the faculty. 



Young 1 , Pierce Manning Butler, military of- 

 ficer, born in Spartansburg, S. C., Nov. 15, 1839 ; 

 died in New York city, July 6. 1896. When he was 

 a year old the family removed to Georgia, where he 

 was educated at the State Military Institute, and 

 began studying law. He entered the United States 

 Military Academy in 1857, but resigned before 

 graduation to enter the Confederate army. At the 

 bombardment of Fort Su inter he was a 2d lieuten- 

 ant of artillery at Charleston, S. C. His next serv- 

 ice was in Florida as aid to Gen. Wheeler. He 

 obtained the post of adjutant of Cobb's Legion, 

 then being organized from the Georgia troops, and 

 of this body he subsequently became colonel. He 

 took part in the invasion of Maryland and was 

 wounded in the battle of Boonesbo rough ; con- 

 ducted many raids ; and in 1864 captured Gen. 

 Grant's corral of 2,500 head of cattle that had been 

 brought together on the Chickahominy. He was 

 promoted brigadier general in November, 1863, 

 and major general, Dec. 12, 1864; and was the 

 youngest officer of that rank in the Confederate 

 service. After the war he settled in Cartersville, 

 Ga. On July 25, 1868, he took his seat in Congress 



as the first Democrat elected after the restoration 

 of representation to the Southern States. He served 

 through the three ensuing terms, and was appointed 

 one of the United States commissioners to the Paris 

 Exposition in 1877. consul general at St. Petersburg 

 in 1885, and minister to Guatemala and Honduras 

 in 1893. 



Young, William Crittendeii, educator, born in 

 Danville, Ky., April 23, 1842; died there Sept. Hi, 

 1896. lie was a son of the Rev. Dr. John C. 

 Young, for many years President of Center College 

 in Danville, and his mother was a daughter of John 

 J. Crittenden. He was graduated at Center College 

 in 1859, and at Danville Theological Seminary in 

 1866 : was licensed to preach, and held pastorates 

 at Covington. Ky.. Madison. Ind., Chicago, 111., and 

 Louisville, Ky. He was elected President of Cen- 

 ter College in 1888, and retained the office till his 

 death. He was Moderator of the General Assembly 

 of the Presbyterian Church in 1892, and was also 

 chairman of the committee having special charge 

 of the relations between the seminaries and the 

 Assembly. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Aitchison, Sir 

 Charles, a British Indian administrator, born in 

 Edinburgh in 1832; died in Oxford, Feb. 18, 1896. 

 He was educated at Edinburgh University, and re- 

 turned from his studies in Germany to take advan- 

 tage of the competitive examination for the Indian 

 civil service introduced in 1855 through the efforts 

 of Maeanlay. After acquiring Hindi, Hindustani, 

 and Persian, and studying Indian law and history 

 at Calcutta, he went to his post as assistant magis- 

 trate in a desert district of the northwest that was 

 afterward incorporated in the Punjab. During 

 the mutiny he served under John Lawrence at La- 

 hore as an assistant judicial commissioner, and 

 there prepared a ' Manual of the Criminal Law of 

 the Punjab '' and contributed articles to the " Cal- 

 cutta Review." As the ablest of the competition 

 //Y//A///.S, he was called to Calcutta by Lord Canning 

 in November, 1859, to take the coveted post of 

 foreign under secretary. He was permitted to re- 

 organize the Foreign Office on the system still main- 

 tained, and accompanied the Viceroy on his prog- 

 resses through northern, western, and central India, 

 and was the judge of the application in each case 

 <>f the fHoiad of adoption and of the rewards and 

 rebukes to be administered to the feudatory sover- 

 eigns for their actions during the mutiny. The 

 status of the vassal states was exactly defined in 

 his " Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads relating to 

 Indian and the Neighboring States." He was Com- 

 missioner of Lahore and secretary to the Punjab 

 Government after Lord Canning left till Sir John 

 Lawrence called him back to Calcutta to be his for- 

 eign secretary, in which office he was retained by 

 Lord Mayo and Lord Northbrook to aid them in 

 carrying out Lord Lawrence's policy toward the 

 native states and especially toward Afghanistan 

 while Shere Ali was Ameer. When Lord Lytton 

 began to reverse that policy Aitehison was on fur- 

 lough. In March, 1878, he was appointed Chief 

 Commissioner of British Burmah. Subsequently 

 he served as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, 

 where his knowledge of the people and their natu- 

 ral rulers and his sympathetic regard for native 

 rights rendered his administration one of the most 

 beneficent in the annals of British rule in India. 

 He founded the Punjab University to win the 

 Brahman, Pundit, and Maulvi to loyalty and re- 

 spect for the English rule through a knowledge of 

 Western science, literature, and institutions com- 

 municated through the Oriental languages. He 

 worked out with skill the principle of local self- 

 government for the Punjab according to the re- 

 form policy of Lord Ripon. He left as memorials 



